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Best Current Reference For Pebbles

  1. Brad A. Myers "Using Hand-Held Devices and PCs Together," Communications of the ACM. Volume 44, Issue 11. November, 2001. pp. 34 - 41. pdf

Talks and Videos

  1. "Mobile Devices for Control", talk given as part of: CS547 : Stanford University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar on People, Computers, and Design, November 22, 2002, Palo Alto, CA. Available as streaming video (86min)  (Warning: streaming video link crashes Netscape 4.7!)
  2. "Using Handheld Computers and PCs Together" (an overview of the Pebbles project). 90 minute talk given to the HCI Seminar Series, Carnegie Mellon University, 11-17-1999. Click here to download a video of this talk (in .asf format)

Papers

  1. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers, "Adding gestural text entry to input devices for people with motor impairments", Chapter 14 in J. Lazar (ed.), Universal Usability. New York: John Wiley & Sons, To appear.
  2. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers. "Enabling Devices, Empowering People: The Design and Evaluation of Trackball EdgeWrite," Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technologies, special issue on Accessibility. To appear.
  3. Jeffrey Nichols and Brad A. Myers, "Controlling Home and Office Appliances with Smartphones". IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on SmartPhones, Vol. 5, No. 3, July-Sept, 2006. pp. 60-67. pdf
  4. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers, "From Letters to Words: Efficient Stroke-based Word Completion for Trackball Text Entry", 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS'06, Portland, OR, Oct. 23-25, 2006. pp. 2-9. pdf
  5. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, and Duen Horng Chau, "In-stroke Word Completion". ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'06, October 15-18, 2006, Montreux, Switzerland. pp. 333-336. pdf
  6. Jeffrey Nichols, Brandon Rothrock, Duen Horng Chau, Brad A. Myers. "Huddle: Automatically Generating Interfaces for Systems of Multiple Connected Appliances" ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'06, October 15-18, 2006, Montreux, Switzerland. To appear. pdf
  7. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers, "Trackball Text Entry for People with Motor Impairments," Proceedings CHI'2006: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, Canada, April 22-27, 2006. pp. 479-488. Winner, CHI 2006 Best Paper Award. pdf
  8. Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Brandon Rothrock, "UNIFORM: Automatically Generating Consistent Remote Control User Interfaces," Proceedings CHI'2006: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, Canada, April 22-27, 2006. pp. 611-620. pdf
  9. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers and Brandon Rothrock, "Few-key Text Entry Revisited: Mnemonic Gestures on Four Keys," Proceedings CHI'2006: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, Canada, April 22-27, 2006. pp. 489-492. pdf
  10. Duen Horng Chau, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Brandon Rothrock. "Integrating Isometric Joysticks into Mobile Phones for Text Entry". Extended Abstracts, CHI'2006. Montreal, Canada, April 22-27, 2006. pp. 640-645. pdf
  11. Ivan E. Gonzalez, Jake Wobbrock, and Brad A. Myers. "Text Entry for Automobiles", ACM 2005 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October 19-22, 2005. (Poster presentation, Abstract only).
  12. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers. "Gestural text entry on multiple devices." Demonstration Abstract. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '05). Baltimore, Maryland (October 9-12, 2005). pp. 184-185. pdf
  13. Brad Myers and Jacob Wobbrock. "Text Input to Handheld Devices for People with Physical Disabilities." 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI Interactional 2005) . July 22-27, 2005. Las Vegas, NV. vol. 4, pp. 1962-1970. pdf
  14. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers. "EdgeWrite: A New Text Entry Technique Designed for Stability." Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA'05). Atlanta, Georgia (June 23-27, 2005). pdf
  15. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers. "Accessible Handheld And Desktop Text Entry For People With Motor Impairments," 2005 NISH National Training & Achievement Conference, New Orleans, May 22-24, 2005. First place Winner, National Scholar Award for Workplace Innovation & Design. pdf
  16. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Htet Htet Aung, Brandon Rothrock and Brad A. Myers. "Maximizing the Guessability of Symbolic Input" (Short Talk). Extended Abstracts CHI'2005: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Portland, OR, April 2-7, 2005. pp. 1869-1872. pdf. ACM DL
  17. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Htet Htet Aung, Brad A. Myers, and Edmund F. LoPresti. "Integrated Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs." Behaviour and Information Technology. Vol. 24, no. 3. May-June 2005. pp. 187-203. BIT online
  18. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Brad A. Myers. "Analyzing the Input Stream for Character-level Errors in Unconstrained Text Entry Evaluations." ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction. To appear. pdf
  19. Jeffrey Nichols and Brad A. Myers, "Generating Consistent Interfaces for Appliances," in the Second Workshop on Multi-User and Ubiquitous User Interfaces (MU3I) at Intelligent User Interfaces IUI'05. January 9, 2005. San Diego, CA. pp. 9-10. pdf
  20. Brad A. Myers. "Using Handhelds for Wireless Remote Control of PCs and Appliances," Interacting with Computers, Elsevier Science Journals. 2005. Volume 17, Issue 3, May 2005, Pages 251-264. DOI ref or local pdf
  21. Brad A. Myers, Jeffrey Nichols, Jacob O. Wobbrock, and Robert C. Miller. "Taking Handheld Devices to the Next Level." IEEE Computer. December, 2004. vol. 37, no. 12. pp. 36-43. pdf
  22. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, Htet Htet Aung, and Edmund F. LoPresti. "Text Entry from Power Wheelchairs: EdgeWrite for Joysticks and Touchpads." The Sixth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies: ASSETS 2004. October 18-20, 2004. Atlanta, GA.  pp. 110-117. Winner, Best Paper Award. pdf
  23. Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Kevin Litwack, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hughes, Thomas K. Harris. "Describing Appliance User Interfaces Abstractly with XML," in Workshop on Developing User Interfaces with XML: Advances on User Interface Description Languages, Satellite Workshop at Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004. 25 May, 2004, Gallipoli, Italy. pp, 9-16. pdf
  24. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, and Htet Htet Aung. "Writing with a Joystick: A Comparison of Date Stamp, Selection Keyboard, and EdgeWrite," Graphics Interface GI'2004. Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society. May 17-19, 2004, London, Ontario, Canada. pp. 1-8. pdf
  25. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, and Htet Htet Aung. "Joystick Text Entry Using Date Stamp, Selection Keyboard, and EdgeWrite." Extended Abstracts CHI'2004: Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Poster Abstract). Vienna, Austria, April 24-29, 2004. p. 1550. pdf
  26. Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers and Kevin Litwack. "Improving Automatic Interface Generation with Smart Templates," IUI'04, Jan. 13-16, 2004, Madeira, Funchal, Portugal. pp. 286-288. pdf
  27. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, and John Kembel. "EdgeWrite: A stylus-based text entry method designed for high accuracy and stability of motion," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'03, Nov. 2-5, 2003, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. pp. 61-70. pdf
  28. Jeffrey Nichols and Brad A. Myers, "Automatically Generating Interfaces for Multi-Device Environments" Ubicomp 2003 Workshop on Multi-Device Interfaces for Ubiquitous Peripheral Interaction. October 12, 2003. Seattle, WA. html.
  29. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers, and Scott E. Hudson. "Exploring Edge-based Input Techniques for Handheld Text Entry". International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing. IWSAWC 2003. In the Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCS'03). May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island. pp. 280-282. pdf.
  30. Jeffrey Nichols and Brad A. Myers. "Studying The Use of Handhelds to Control Smart Appliances". International Workshop on Smart Appliances and Wearable Computing. IWSAWC 2003. In the Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCS'03). May 19-22, 2003, Providence, Rhode Island. pp. 274-279. pdf
  31. Jacob O. Wobbrock. "The Benefits of Physical Edges in Gesture-Making: Empirical Support for an Edge-Based Unistroke Alphabet." Extended Abstracts of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '03). Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 2003. pp. 942-943. pdf or ACM
  32. Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Kevin Litwack. "Personal Universal Controllers: Controlling Complex Appliances With GUIs and Speech," Extended Abstract CHI'2003: Human Factors in Computing Systems. (Demonstration Abstract). Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April 5-10, 2003. pp. 624-625. pdf
  33. Brad A. Myers, Jeffrey Nichols, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Kevin Litwack, Michael Higgins, Joe Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Mathilde Pignol. "Handheld Devices for Control". Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC'2003), Winter Park, CO, Feb 5-9, 2003. pdf
  34. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Jodi Forlizzi, Scott E. Hudson, Brad A. Myers, "WebThumb: Interaction Techniques for Small-Screen Browsers," CHI Letters: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'02, 27-30 Oct. 2002, Paris, France. pp. 205-208. pdf
  35. Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Michael Higgins, Joe Hughes, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Mathilde Pignol. "Generating Remote Control Interfaces for Complex Appliances." CHI Letters: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'02, 27-30 Oct. 2002, Paris, France. pp. 161-170. pdf
  36. Brad Myers, Robert Malkin, Michael Bett, Alex Waibel, Ben Bostwick, Robert C. Miller, Jie Yang, Matthias Denecke, Edgar Seemann, Jie Zhu, Choon Hong Peck, Dave Kong, Jeffrey Nichols, Bill Scherlis. "Flexi-modal and Multi-Machine User Interfaces," IEEE Fourth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'02, Pittsburgh, PA. October 14-16, 2002. pp. 343-348. pdf
  37. Jeffrey Nichols, Brad Myers, Thomas K. Harris, Roni Rosenfeld, Stefanie Shriver, Michael Higgins, Joseph Hughes. "Requirements for Automatically Generating Multi-Modal Interfaces for Complex Appliances," IEEE Fourth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, ICMI'02. Pittsburgh, PA. October 14-16, 2002. pp. 377-382. pdf
  38. Brad A. Myers. "Mobile Devices for Control," The Fourth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Mobile Devices, Mobile HCI'02. (Keynote speech), September 18-20, 2002, Pisa, Italy. pp. 1-8. pdf
  39. Brad A. Myers, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Sunny Yang, Brian Yeung, Jeffrey Nichols, and Robert Miller. "Using Handhelds to Help People with Motor Impairments," Fifth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies; ASSETS 2002. July 8-10, 2002. Edinburgh, Scotland. pp. 89-96. pdf or html
  40. Jeffrey Nichols. "Informing Automatic Generation of Remote Control Interfaces with Human Designs" CHI'2002 Student Posters. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 20-25, 2002. pp. 864-865. pdf
  41. Brad A. Myers, Rishi Bhatnagar, Jeffrey Nichols, Choon Hong Peck, Dave Kong, Robert Miller, and A. Chris Long. "Interacting At a Distance: Measuring the Performance of Laser Pointers and Other Devices." Proceedings CHI'2002: Human Factors in Computing Systems. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 20-25, 2002. pp. 33-40. pdf
  42. Brad A. Myers and Jeffrey Nichols, "Communication Ubiquity Enables Ubiquitous Control." 'Boaster' for Human-Computer Interaction Consortium (HCIC'2002). Winter Park, CO, Feb, 2002.  html
  43. Brad A. Myers, Choon Hong Peck, Jeffrey Nichols, Dave Kong, and Robert Miller, "Interacting At a Distance Using Semantic Snarfing," ACM UbiComp'2001, Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia. pp. 305-314. pdf
  44. Jeffrey W. Nichols. "Using Handhelds as Controls for Everyday Appliances: A Paper Prototype Study." ACM CHI'2001 Student Posters. Seattle, WA. March 31-April 5, 2001. pp. 443-444. pdf
  45. Choon Hong Peck, "Useful Parameters for the Design of Laser Pointer Interaction Techniques." ACM CHI'2001 Student Posters. Seattle, WA. March 31-April 5, 2001. pp. 461-462. pdf
  46. Jeffrey Nichols, Brad A. Myers, Rob Miller. "Personal Interfaces in Ubiquitous Environments". Workshop on Building the Ubiquitous Computing User Experience at CHI'2001, Seattle, WA. html
  47. Brad A. Myers, Jeff Nichols, Rob Miller. "User Interfaces that Span Hand-Held and Fixed Devices" Workshop on Distributed and Disappearing User Interfaces in Ubiquitous Computing at CHI'2001, Seattle, WA. Albrecht Schmidt, Peter Ljundgstrand, and Anind Dey, editors. University of Karlsruhe Faculty of Information Technical Report 2001-6. ISSN 1432-7864. html
  48. Brad A. Myers. "Using Multiple Devices Simultaneously for Display and Control." IEEE Personal Communications special issue on "Networking the Physical World." vol. 7, no. 5, Oct. 2000. pp. 62-65.
  49. Brad A. Myers. "Collaboration Using Multiple PDAs Connected to a PC," Workshop on Shared Environments to Support Face-to-Face Collaboration at CSCW'2000, Philadelphia, PA. html
  50. Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Benjamin Bostwick, and Carl Evankovich, "Extending the Windows Desktop Interface With Connected Handheld Computers," 4th USENIX Windows Systems Symposium, August 3-4, 2000, Seattle, WA. pp. 79-88. postscript or pdf.
  51. Franklin Chen, Brad Myers and David Yaron, Using Handheld Devices for Tests in Classes. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-00-152 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-00-101. July, 2000. pdf or postscript
  52. Brad Myers, "The Pebbles Project: Using PCs and Hand-held Computers Together; Demonstration Extended Abstract." Adjunct Proceedings CHI'2000: Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 1-6, 2000. The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 14-15.
  53. Karen Cross and Adrienne Warmack. "Contextual Inquiry: Quantification and Use in Videotaped Analysis". (Student Poster) Adjunct Proceedings CHI'2000: Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 1-6, 2000. The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 317-318. pdf.
  54. Brad Myers, Kin Pou Lie and Bo-Chieh ("Jerry") Yang, "Two-Handed Input Using a PDA and a Mouse", Proceedings CHI'2000: Human Factors in Computing Systems. April 1-6, 2000. The Hague, The Netherlands. pp. 41-48. postscript or pdf.
  55. Robert C. Miller and Brad A. Myers, "Synchronizing Clipboards of Multiple Computers," CHI Letters: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST'99, vol. 1, no. 1. November 7-10, 1999. Asheville, NC. pp. 65-66.
  56. Brad A. Myers. An Implementation Architecture to Support Single-Display Groupware. Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science Technical Report, no. CMU-CS-99-139 and Human Computer Interaction Institute Technical Report CMU-HCII-99-101. May, 1999. postscript or pdf
  57. Brad A. Myers, Herb Stiel, and Robert Gargiulo. "Collaboration Using Multiple PDAs Connected to a PC." Proceedings CSCW'98: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, November 14-18, 1998, Seattle, WA. pp. 285-294. postscript or pdf

Submitted for Publication

  1. Ivan E. Gonzalez, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Duen Horng Chau, Andrew Faulring, and Brad A. Myers, "Eyes on the Road, Hands on the Wheel: Thumb-based Interaction Techniques for Input on Steering Wheels"
  2. Jeffrey Nichols, Duen Horng Chau, Brad A. Myers, "Demonstrating the Viability of Automatically Generated User Interfaces"
  3. Jacob O. Wobbrock, Duen Horng Chau and Brad A. Myers, "An Alternative to Push, Press, and Tap-tap-tap: Gesturing on an Isometric Joystick for Mobile Phone Text Entry"

Unpublished

  1. Jeffrey Nichols and Brad Myers. Report on the INCITS/V2 AIAP-URC Standard. 2004. pdf
  2. Karen Cross, Adrienne Warmack, and Brad Myers. "Lessons Learned: Using Contextual Inquiry Analysis to Improve PDA Control of Presentations". postscriptor pdf.
  3. Brad A. Myers, Yu Shan A. Chuang, Marsha Tjandra, Mon-chu Chen, and Chun-Kwok Lee. "Floor Control in a Highly Collaborative Co-Located Task." pdf or postscript.

Articles about the Pebbles project by others

  1. Ivanhoe Broadcast News, "Hi-Tech Typing", Discoveries and Breakthroughs in Science. (1:25 min. video and web story). October, 2005. html
  2. (TR Staff), "Write Steady", Technology Review, vol. 108, no. 8, August, 2005, p. 27. html
  3. Anne Watzman, "Myers and Wobbrock to Showcase Projects At Microsoft Research Tech Fair 2005". CMU Press Release. April 27, 2005. html and pictures
  4. ACM TechNews, "Taking Handheld Devices to the Next Level", Volume 7, Issue 744: Friday, January 21, 2005. html
  5. Christine Tomasino, "A Presenter's Friend" and "Handheld Software for Student Collaboration". For What It's $$Worth$$. Friday, January 21, 2005.
  6. Byron Spice, "Text with an edge," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Monday, Nov. 29, 2004. p. A-6. html
  7. Aaron Ricadela, "Trying to Make the Pen as Mighty as the Keyboard," The New York Times, November 11, 2004. p. E5. html
  8. "Home is where the future is", The Economist, Sep 16, 2004. Print edition and on-line
  9. Calvin Leske, "The Pittsburg Pebbles PDA Project" [sic], The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology. Volume 2, Number 19, September 26, 2003. html
  10. Mark Boslet, "THE BIG IDEA: Microsoft Labs Searches For Legacy," Dow Jones Newswires, 22 September 2003.
  11. Kim Peterson. "Inventions' wonderful world on display at Microsoft fair," Seattle Times. Wednesday, July 30, 2003. pp. E-1 and E-3. html
  12. Microsoft PressPass Press Release, "It's Academic: Microsoft Research Collaboration Projects Fuel Technology Innovation at Universities". Redmond, Wash., July 28, 2003. html
  13. Kimberly Patch, "Handhelds Gain Space," Technology Research News, February 26/March 5, 2003, p. 4. html
  14. Dan Gillmore, "Dan Gillmor: Designing new handhelds to improve human-computer interaction," SiliconValley.Com; The San Jose Mercury News, April 9, 2003. html
  15. Walter McKenzie, "PDAs in the Classroom," Innovative Teaching Newsletter, Vol. 5, no. 15, January 6, 2003, html
  16. Ann Light, "Pebbles Project connects PDAs up Smartly," UsabilityNews.com, 17 December 2002. html
  17. Michael Yeomans, "CMU Scientists Improving Computers' People Skills," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Tuesday, October 22, 2002. pages B7, B10. html
  18. WPXI, Channel 11 news at 11:00pm on October 15, 2002. (Includes a brief shot of Jeff and a PUC interface). mpg
  19. Mike Crissey, "Designers Work on All-in-One Remote," Associated Press, August 27, 2002. html
  20. John Zyskowski, "Handhands in a new world order," Federal Computer Week, March 18, 2002. html
  21. Catherine Zandonella, "How to Snarf with the Geeks," New Scientist, London, October 6, 2001, p. 24.
  22. Jennie Borodko Stack, "Palm Pilot Connects Girl with Classroom," QUEST, Volume 8, Number 1, February 2001. html
  23. Paul Beebe, "Software Marketed to trade under CMU brand name," Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, vol. 112, no. 285, Nov. 14, 2000.
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